Sentence examples for sticklebacks from inspiring English sources

A preliminary study of a shoal of ten flesh-and-blood sticklebacks shows that they do indeed mingle with the robot and that they follow its leadership cues as predicted.

Manfred Milinski of the University of Berne, who gave the conference's opening talk, showed a few years ago that female sticklebacks not only identify a breeding male by his belly, but also judge him by just how red that belly is.

Internal fertilisation does mean that you have to woo a mate, which is time consuming, but, though many of those species that have gone down the external route do not bother and do their thing in crowds, others (sticklebacks, for example) are just as picky as any human.

Indeed, Dr Milinski's work with his sticklebacks was an early demonstration that the Hamilton hypothesis may be true.In mammals, one of the most important sets of genes involved in keeping the body parasite-free is the one that carries the plans for the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

Sticklebacks are the most varied in form.

The pegasids have been tentatively placed in their own family (Pegasidae) in this classification; however, some authorities group the pegasids with either the sticklebacks (family Gasterosteidae) or the pipefishes and their allies (family Syngnathidae).

For these efts are nothing else but the waterbabies who are stupid and dirty and will not learn their lessons and keep themselves clean … What was somebody to make of this faux-naif twaddle who was not only not a dear little man, but a girl tall for her age, who had never seen an eft, a vivarium or a stickleback?

Instead, Dr Couzin has built a biddable robot three-spined stickleback.

But a male stickleback invests more than just sperm in his progeny.

Even if she does not go to the hideous expense of nurturing a single offspring in her womb for nine months but, like a stickleback, simply lays her eggs in a nest prepared by a male, she still has to produce those eggs.

And the subject dominated the 25th International Ethological Conference, which took place in Vienna, Lorenz's home town, on August 20th-27th.The belly of the beastThe opening session talked less of goslings and rooks than of an animal that was one of Tinbergen's favourite toys the three-spined stickleback.